Read this @NPR article, and then read this from a recent @IgnatiusPost article. The problem is, most virologists aren’t China experts, even if they sometimes cooperate with Chinese labs... https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/04/23/841729646/virus-researchers-cast-doubt-on-theory-of-coronavirus-lab-accident

Anyone who has lived in China could tell you that people cut corners all the time. Regulations are bent or broken all the time to suit political needs. The virologists who help China on biocontainment aren’t there all the time. They fly over, spend a couple weeks training...

their Chinese colleagues...and then they fly home. Of course these virologists know what they’re talking about—they’re experts in their field. But their frame of reference is how things are supposed to operate in the US, not how things actually operate in China.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/14/state-department-cables-warned-safety-issues-wuhan-lab-studying-bat-coronaviruses/?p9w22b2p=b2p22p9w00098

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/how-did-covid-19-begin-its-initial-origin-story-is-shaky/2020/04/02/1475d488-7521-11ea-87da-77a8136c1a6d_story.html

Perils of writing a hastily-written twitter thread: using a phrase like "all the time" three times in a row. Oops!